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Help The Healthy Dancer become a Top 10 Dance Blog

Each year Nichelle Strzepek of Dance Advantage hosts a contest to determine which dance blogs are the "top dance blogs" of the year. If you like what you have read on The Healthy Dancer, you can help this blog qualify as a finalist in the contest. Simply comment on this post, and let me know why you enjoy this blog, what makes it special, and which posts have been your favorites. The 20 dance blogs that accumulate the most comments by January 20 will be named finalists in the contest. If The Healthy Dancer makes it to the final round, from January 24-31 readers can show their support by voting in that portion of the contest. I am so grateful to my followers who have made my blog successful over the past 18 months, and I hope you will leave a comment below telling me why you stop by and will help The Healthy Dancer become a finalist in Dance Advantage's 2013 Top Dance Blog contest.

So we're totally competition in this contest, but I seriously love your blog. All your posts put a smile on my face, and I always find myself agreeing with what you have to say and sharing your posts with my dancers. Best of luck!

I found this blog through a post on LinkedIn a while back. I am a high school dance coach and I have found many of the blogs to be useful in passing on quick but insightful information to my students and their parents. I especially liked the bogs dealing with eating disorders. This is an issue with so many dancers and it was great to see something written specific to a dancer and how it affects them.

I love this blog for many reasons but the holistic approach to the art form of dance is among the top reasons. Dance is an intregal part of my life and it's equally important to my daughters, The Healthy Dancers has helped us all to understand the many moving parts of dance, the body, nutrition, body image and injury's in a way that makes it safe and still keeps us passionate and moving! Dance is for everyone not just dancers and that message is clear. Good luck, you sure have my vote!!

My daughter and I both really enjoy this blog. A mini book club of sorts. It creates an opportunity for us to discuss what we've read and learned. Finding a door with a 13-year-old where there are usually walls...priceless!!

I want to vote for The Healthy Dancer blog for many reasons. First of all, the specific focus on health, which I haven't come across before. A dancer's life is tough and injuries and early retirement are commonplace, more or less considered part of the trade. But dance is a passion for life and this blog makes an important contribution to keeping dancers healthier, by keeping this focus in such an inspired way.Second, the topics are relevant for all genres, styles or "confessions". I have recommended it to colleagues practising ballet, tango, contemporary, bellydance, salsa, etc etc.Last but not least, it is well written and well researched.Regards from a devoted reader in Sweden :-)!

Well, not only do I like this blog because you were my dance classmate at Goucher, but because it addresses the need for dancers to be their own physiotherapist, nutritionist, psychologist, trainer, teacher and more. It gives dancers and dance teachers like myself the information we need to dance stronger and longer (kinda like the book) and help our students to do the same. Keep up the great work and good luck in the contest!-Amy